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Managing Hardware RAIDs with Adaptec Storage Manager and Ubuntu

"Ubuntu Server deployment confronts a roadblock in terms of
hardware management of redundant arrays of independent disks
(RAID). Adaptec, a leading RAID card vendor, does not provide a
Debian-based version of its popular Storage Manager software, even
though the Linux kernel includes the driver for many of its RAID
cards by default. As a result, IT administrators running Ubuntu
Server don't have a vendor-supported method for RAID controller
management.

"Here we discuss how to download the RPM-based Adaptec Storage
Manager for x64 Linux and convert it to a Debian-based tool..."